I never really liked a lot of ghost stories. The haunted house and the poltergeist never really captured what I felt the ghost was. It is a balancing act of sadness and the macabre. I found a love of horror as a way of expressing deep emotion in a visceral way. Not to shock the viewer but to engage them in the grotesque aspects of life that are not always beautiful like anxieties, depression, the omnipresence of fear in that exists in life.

With deep rooted inspiration in classic gothic literature, I use my work to give my ghosts tangibility and form and to better understand who I am. I never really liked a lot of ghost stories. The haunted house and the poltergeist were not my ghosts. They were not my hauntings. I use gothic literature as an influence to create a merging of traditional horror imagery and the deeply personal themes those stories carry. The imagery of the ghost as a representation of the past that continues to haunt me in the present is very visceral to me and the work I produce.

Learning to live with my hauntings and understanding my ghosts will never go away like the end of a ghost story will. In order to capture these concepts and forms, I use graphite, charcoal, conte, and thread alongside heavily shadowed figures and backgrounds with little to no color. Thread is a main visual motif throughout my work that I use specifically to pierce the page to give the drawings not only a visual quirk but also a connection between the viewer and the drawing. By breaking that 2d/3d barrier, I try to invite the viewer into the image while symbolizing that the imagery is not limited to the page and to remove the closure that can give. I never really liked a lot of ghost stories. The haunted house and the poltergeist were not my ghosts. So, I made my own.